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Re: To be fair ...

ISP's in the 90's oversold dialup connections at an average of 14+ to 1 (AoL was 20+ to 1 for a while there) to make a profit and only added modem racks when the customer busy complaints added up to a certain percentage. That's the reality. Bandwidth and hardware cost money and your customer A has *always* subsidized not only customer B, but bandwidth/hardware upgrades at the ISP level.

Re: initial attack vector

The Russians, of course, duh...*

* Boogeyman to everybody but the Russians...

Re: Size matters

Even with armor pads, he's too squishy to throw at a comet. Need something solid, like Trump's head...

Re: I read this story about 15 years ago..

Depends. If it was a submersible pump, you replace it. You may never see it again.

I just had one replaced for $1800 and it was only a 84' hole with the pump at 60' (I have a 3' water table) - original had been in there 16 years. The deeper you have to go, prices increase quite a bit.

Edit: I don't get why the pump went on at every flush - this system not have a pressure bladder tank to stop that from happening?

Yeah well I threw up when I read that. I don't need to throw up, I need to put some weight *back* on***.

Smoke free since June 4th.... been smoking Camel filters since 1982, figured it was time. Now I want a cig, real bad... fucking Bezos... asshole.

Wife doesn't feed me and gets mad if I feed myself. Weird, eh? I corrected the problem, scripting errors.

'So how could it go so badly wrong'

Never underestimate the power of human arrogance and stupidity - if it can happen, it will.*

*recent events surrounding NSA having dangerous tools taken from them and used to bitchslap corporates and gov agencies that should have known better prove that pretty well...

Re: @Dave Austin ... Was it wise to fire him?

So.

Bottom line is that a company, any company, can terminate an employee for insubordination if the employee does not surrender their Constitutional rights when ordered to by said company.

Is that correct?

Question on the toilet rolls..

16 rolls each week? Just you? If so, dayum, that's a lot of tp! 2.something a day... hmm.

I LOVE Scream Tracing! Amuses the hell out of network owners too.

-Upvoted!

Re: Anyone-

Infosec sounds much sexier than 'Information Security'... try it.

I feel that anyone using the word 'cyber', needs a bicycle helmet for safety's sake, water wings, and receive an instant 75% discount on the veracity of any subject they expound on (maxing the bullshit meter...).

Soon as I saw Pascal, I knew I was in trouble and my eyes glazed over.

Pretty car though.

Re: Please no

S&M with a side of dinosaur necrophilia... what else?

;)

Re: Permanent Storage

That right there is pretty exciting but at a price. Sony and Panasonic are producing Archival Discs, Sony's writer is $6400 and Panasonic's is untouchable for a consumer/small business with their rack systems.

There was a link off the page you gave about M-DISC - blue-ray cd's with up to 100GB capacity that can be written to with certain brand blue-ray burners - they are allegedly supposed to last 1000 years and aren't too pricey.

Thank you!

Re: If Beavis and Butthead moved into IT...

This isn't new - ran into this in the late 90's and should have it's own dank meme by now... Seems to be related to the 'Mom's Basement' mentality when someone or some few basement trolls make good and use the gobs of cash they've received to live out their idea of CEO-level corporate life. They tend to implode over the years though. Like these guys.

'How much could be done for $200 per PC ?'

Roughly, that'll get you one visit a month to physically check your machine for one year, with an emergency 4 hour response for 'other'* under an annual maintenance contract.

*Other being like last Friday, upgrades, or users shooting themselves in the foot, doing things they shouldn't be doing. Of course, 'other' pays well but clients do get a 25% discount off the hourly rate for being under contract.

Back in the late 90's and early 0's, it was my job to go after people abusing our network, killing them off and blacklisting them with other local ISP's in Tucson/Southern Arizona. We didn't take kindly to that sort of villainy - I miss those days.

All about the money and the internet just isn't as fun anymore (and seems to be missing parts).

Re: See!

Fab? What's that?

I use breadboards.... my x86 .5Mhz bread loaf is the size of a small car... working on the 1.5Mhz upgrade now if I can source another bundle of old telco copper......

*why is there not a finger-in-mouth woob_woob_woob crazy eyes icon?

Re: He should take the fall

Tis easy to claim to be 'fully accountable' when there is no accountability. There hasn't been a Federal politician since Nixon (and he got pardoned!) been held accountable for their bullshit.

Average citizen facing the full wrath of the Feds? You won't even know their name, they'll be buried so far.

Ya, know? Pitchforks and torches aren't *that* far off - how about getting ahead of the curve with a pitchfork and torch icon, El Reg?

Re: HMS Ark Royal

That will always be my favorite British aircraft carrier - through Tom Clancy novels.

The HMS Ark Royal - never any disrespect offered or intended - she was a badass Lady.

Re: Juicing is bad

Grapefruit.... My Ghod, do you know how long it has been since I had a grapefruit? I recall I liked them... Hmmm

I don't remember. Pretty sure I was still living w/parents. Fuck. That means 35+ years ago, minimum. Have to go by the store today.

On Topic-> That machine should have been sold on QVC or the Home Shopping Network, but they want to be Apple, mixed with a little HP dicketry. They attempted to sell it at $699 at first, but that proved to be a bit much for the folks who cannot afford to hire fitness trainers... I understand they have delivery issues to parts of the country because the packets have next to zero shelf life (which is odd because I can order live tropical fish from a breeder in Oregon and have them 3-day shipped to Tennessee with possible 1-2 losses from a group of ten). You also cannot buy juice packets unless you already are a registered owner of said kitchen counter clutterer.

I also suspect those 'fresh vegetables' are the leftovers from processing fruit for other uses - a'la pink slime bits and pieces.

Thought that was

'The International Secret Intelligence Service'? Did it to ODIN I believe.

;)

'US military, "properly trained", same sentence? For what values of "properly trained"???'

US military on the pointy end will kill/deny you resources quite efficiently, while the support train can fudge training numbers and thus do not have the actually training - they also tend to be a mixed bag of personality types, so they can drag down the kill ratio. "We Train Hard, so War is Easy" combined with Unit tradition of 'It is not your duty to die for your country, there is no honor in that, it's to make the other sonuvabitch die for his!' (pretty sure Patton quote)

Figure in that there are now several generations of retired combat vets - woe betides the side they are not on come de la Revolucion. Historic ref: Revolutionary Armies of Washington et al had high levels of British trained combat vets from the French-Indian wars, who were further trained in frontier fighting tactics borrowed from the war. British didn't have many blooded troops until they brought in the Hessians, and were slow to react to creative attacks by the so-called rustic colonials. Having all these vets around not happy with Federal policies, should make folks thoughtful. It won't, because humans are content to repeat history because they have somewhat superior intellect compared to the masses, therefore consider it inconceivable that they would reap the same results as their more-backward political predecessors in the past.

As for uncontrolled weapons purchasing... I'm at odds with the NRA (paid member) in the belief NO ONE should be allowed to own a firearms unless they have completed a proficiency range test and a strong Law & Safety test - make them work for it if they want it - I want zero accidents and responsibility with weapons ownership. But what do I know?

The London argument doesn't really apply with the recent truck attack on that bridge - trained citizen weapons ownership would have enabled two better possible outcomes: Armed Concerned Citizen stops attack with personal weapon or more likely, blocking the sonuvabitch trucker in a hurry, because Mr. Crazed Trucker ain't getting position on me by cheating. Isn't nice and I do not have to tolerate bad behavior in polite society.

Enough rambling, lack of sleep is making me see things..

tl:dr rambling opinions not in any particular order.

Makes equipment for 4x4's - named after Moab, Utah, US - a 4x4 mecca of sorts.

You GO, Australia!

lol...

Re: Sorry to be pedantic but...

Doesn't have to be new and then you avoid all those DRM issues with newer models...

https://chattanooga.craigslist.org/search/hva?query=tractor&sort=rel

Re: One word:

They have one in Ellijay, Georgia, US and ever since I've encountered it, I've avoided the town completely when going that direction.

I cannot compare this roundabout with anything else due to poor State of Georgia signage and Google Maps losing it's fucking mind when reaching that roundabout. Just nope.

And that's why there are global warming skeptics...

weird, eh?

Re: Working for NEST Pensions

That's not so bad... Remember Gain.gator? Made many, many folks very angry and want retribution.

I was senior sysadmin at Gain Communications, a small ISP in Tucson, Arizona - care to guess how many of those many, many angry folks called to complain/threaten/scream due to similarity of names?

It was a bad time.